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(Application led Mar. 15, 1901. Renewed Dec. 17, 1901.)

(lo Model.)

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UNITED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE..

JOI-IN F. MASON, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,103, dated December2, 1902.

Application filed March 16,1901. Renewed December 17, 1901. Serial No.86,293. (No model.)

T0 all 1,077,077?, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. MASON, of Des Moines,in the county of Polk,State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottles, of which the following is a complete specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved bottle which can beused but once and which after it has been once used cannot be refilledwithout presenting unmistakable evidence of the fact, which evidencecannot be removed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a side elevation of one formof embodiment of my invention in a complete bottle stoppered and sealed.Fig. II is a central vertical section of the subject-matter of Fig. I.Fig. III is a bottom plan view of the subjectmatter of Fig. I.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, 1 indicates the body of abottle provided with a bottom 2 and a neck which is preferably, but notnecessarily, composed of two parts 3 and 4, separably united as againsta gasket 5.

My invention consists, broadly, in providing one or more sealing-wires6, embedded in the body ot' the material of which the body ofthe bottleis composed. In the drawings four sealing-wires are shown, and thesewires after the bottle is first filled are securely closed by anyordinary or preferred meansas, for example, by the twisted knot 7,overlapping the cork 8 of the bottle. The means employed for sealing oruniting the wires 6 should be such as will make it necessary to break orcut the wires in order to gain access to the contents of the bottle,after which the bottle cannot be again filled and sealed by the aid ofthe wires. A simple means for accomplishing the result specified is tomake the wires of such material as will permit of' twisting them butonce without breaking, or other means may be substituted therefor.

In the drawings I illustrate in addition to the stopper S a stopper 9 inthe bottom 2 of the bottle, over which the wires are twisted, asindicated at 10. This is merely done in my invention and to show thatthe bottle may be closed from either end. Practically, of course, twostopper-s would not be employed in the same bottle.

Another feature of my invention is to make the bottle in two parts, thebody 1 with the portion 3V of' the neck exemplifying one part and theportion 4 of the neck exemplifying the other part. The wires 6 may passthrough the portion 4 of the neck o1' over the outside thereof andsecure it in place against the gasket 5. It the wires are made to passthrough the portion 4 of the neck, it would be desirable generally tothread them through apertures provided for them in the finished article,though if the stopper 9 be used a solid headed part 4 for the neck mightbe employed and the neck, with the wires 6 in it, mauuf'ac# tured inconnection with the body 1. In that case in order to open the bottle itwould be necessary to remove the part 4 of' the neck, thereby breakingthe wires 6 and mutilating the bottle against any possible future useother than removal of the contents of the bottle in the process ofconsumption.

My invention comprehends one or more sealing-wires embedded in the bodyof the material of which the bottle is composed and extending into theside or sides of the bottle, whereby the sealing-wire is not onlyirremovably secured to the bottle, butits presence is unmistakablyapparent even to a casual observer. In the preferred form 'of embodimentof my invention illustrated I employ a plurality of sealing-wiresembedded in the body of the material of which the bottle is composed andwhich, surrounding the bottle endwise, has projecting ends for theforming or attachment-of a seal.

What I claim isl. As a new article of manufacture, a bottle providedwith one or more sealing-wires embedded in the body of the material ofwhich the bottle is composed, and extending therein substantially fromtop to bottom thereof.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a bottle surrounded by one or moresealing-wires order the better to explain the principle of i v15,1o3

embeddedinthe bodyof the material of which l bottle proper, and aseparable part united by the bottle is composed, and having the ends theWires to the bottle proper. Ic projecting for sealing purposes. Intestimony of all which I have hereunto 3. As a newr article ofmanufacture, a bobsubscribed my name. 5 tle composed of two parts,abottle proper be- JOHN F. MASON. in?.- provided With a plurality ofsealing-Wires Witnesses:

EHAS. E. RIoRDAN, KARL J. DANIEL.

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